A prominent businessman who was a major campaign fundraiser for Barack Obama said he believes Donald Trump is poised to “win it all.”

Don Peebles, a real estate developer and former member of the Obama campaign’s national finance committee, told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Sunday, “On the Republican side for president, governors, Donald Trump, so you got people who know how to manage things. New York City is an example of what you can get with incompetent management.”

Cavuto responded, “Ted Cruz said he (Donald Trump) can win the whole thing if he wins in Iowa. What do you think of that? Can he go on to win it all?”

Peebles absolutely agreed. “Oh, I think Donald Trump is poised to win it all,” he said. “If you look at what David Axelrod wrote last week about how the country went from Bush to Obama because they wanted to make an extreme change. Donald is an extreme change, plus Donald is not a real risk in terms of management. He understands how to manage a business.”

“The challenge of electing someone like Cruz is that’s he’s got no management experience. He’s never been able to work with anyone to get anything done,” he added.

Peebles’ observation on the latter point is not accurate. As reported by Western Journalism, Cruz served as a policy director in the Federal Trade Commission during George W. Bush’s first term. In that position, he was known as a consensus builder, with almost all of his initiatives receiving unanimous support among both Republicans and Democrats, who comprised the commission.

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Former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod agrees with Peebles’ overall assessment about Trump. Writing in the New York Times last week, Axelrod explained, “Open-seat presidential elections are shaped by perceptions of the style and personality of the outgoing incumbent. Voters rarely seek the replica of what they have. They almost always seek the remedy, the candidate who has the personal qualities the public finds lacking in the departing executive.”

Axelrod noted a young John Kennedy replaced a much older Dwight Eisenhower; self-professed, born-again Christian Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford (who finished Richard Nixon’s tarnished second term); and low-key George H.W. Bush took over for the larger than life Ronald Reagan. Of course, well-spoken, urbane Barack Obama achieved his landmark victory following plain-spoken Texan George W. Bush.

“It’s far too early to picture the iconic Trump logo affixed to the White House portico,” Axelrod wrote. “But as the most ardent and conspicuous counterpoint to the man in the White House today, the irrepressible Mr. Trump already has defied all expectations. So, in the parlance of one of his signature businesses, ‘Who wants to bet?’”